Importing crontab File and Entries from one AIX Server to Another

We're in the midst of transitioning our production server to another server?in this case, one running AIX v.53 to a server running AIX v6.1.

Rather than go into the crontab file on the AIX v6.1 server and re-enter all of the entries on the AIX v5.3 server, I'd like to just import the current crontab to AIX v6.1 and then comment out any entries we don't need.

I went to IBM System Information Center and I couldn't find the instructions to do this.

Scp /var/spoo/cron/crontabs/root NEWSYSTEM:/var/spoo/cron/crontabs/root
Then on the NEWSYSTEM run crontab to pick up the change.

But I caution you not to do this. I have not done a comparison but I'd be willing to bet there are things in 5.3 cron that have been replaced/changed/added in 6.1 and you may end up breaking something in a truly spectacular way.

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